Aribwaung language
Aribwaung, also known as Yalu, is an Austronesian language of Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea. It is spoken in the single village of Yalu in Wampar Rural LLG.
Phonology
Consonants
- /β/ may also be heard as a voiced plosive in free variation among speakers.
- /r/ may range to a lateral in free variation among speakers.
- /ⁿts/ only occurs in a few examples.
- Sounds /ts, ⁿts, dz, ⁿdz/ may have palatalized and non-palatalized allophones, alternating freely in all positions.
- /h/ is rare.